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<p><span class="teaser">Fitness ball exercises work to strengthen the core muscles including the hard-to-get-to muscles. They also improve balance and overall coordination. Below are fitness ball exercises that should be part of everyone&rsquo;s exercise regime.</span></p>
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<h4>Back Extension</h4>
<p>Position the ball under your hips and lower torso with the knees straight or bent. With hands behind the head or behind back, slowly roll down the ball. Lift your chest off the ball, bringing your shoulders up until your body is in a straight line. Make sure your body is in alignment (i.e., head, neck, shoulders and back are in a straight line), your abs are pulled in and that don't hyperextend the back.</p>
<h4>Ball Balance</h4>
<p>Position the ball under your abs and hips, hands on the floor and legs straight and off the floor. Hold that position for 20 to 30 seconds, keeping your body in a straight line, abs pulled in. Keeping balance, slowly raise your right arm out to the side, taking care not to roll or allow any part of your body to collapse. Hold that for a few seconds and switch arms. This is tougher than it looks!</p>
<h4>Butt Lift</h4>
<p>Lie on the ball with the head, neck and shoulders supported, knees bent and body in a table-top position. Lower the hips towards the floor without rolling on the ball. Squeeze the glutes to raise hips until body is in a straight line like a bridge. Hold weights on the hips for added intensity and make sure you press through the heels and not the toes.</p>
<h4>Hip Extension</h4>
<p>Lie down with feet heels propped on ball. Keeping abs tight, slowly lift your hips off the floor (squeezing the glutes) until body is in a straight line. Hold for a few seconds and lower. For added intensity, lift the hips and then take one leg off the ball, hold for a moment and lower. Repeat, lifting the other leg off the ball.</p>
<h4>Ab Roll</h4>
<p>Place your hands on the ball in front of you, arms parallel. Pulling your belly button towards your spine and tightening your torso, slowly roll forward, rolling the ball out as far as you can without arching or straining the back. Push the elbows into the ball and squeeze the abs to pull the body back to start. Avoid this move if you have back problems.</p>
<h4>Ball Rotation</h4>
<p>Lie with ball under shoulders and lower back, arms straight up over chest, palms together. Hold your body in a straight line from hips to knees. Tightening your glutes and abs, slowly twist your body to the left, sweeping arms parallel to the floor, then back up, repeating on the other side. Try not to collapse the body or roll too far, but really use your abs.</p>
<h4>Ball Twist</h4>
<p>Get into a pushup position with the feet on either side of the ball (turning your ankles so that you are hugging the ball). Hold body in a straight line with abs pulled in, hips straight and hands directly under shoulders. Slowly twist the ball to the right while trying to keep your shoulders level, then to the left. Don't sag in the middle.</p>
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<p><span class="teaser">Home health services are something you might think is far off in your future. But when you are facing a long recovery period or you are in the throes of a chronic medical disorder, you will need more help than you or your family can manage. </span>With a home health aide or other care giver, you can make sure your recovery is pleasant and smooth, without putting strain on yourself or on those you love.</p>
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<p><span class="subtitle1">Some people simply can not sit at home without some sort of supervised health care.</span> A home health aide or other services will be able to sit with you as you begin to heal from your illness or surgery, allowing you the opportunity to call out for help as needed. This home health worker may not be sitting next to you at all times, but they will be in your home to attend to your every health need. Once you call for them, they will be able to help you with medications, injections, and even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_therapy" target="_blank">physical therapy</a> in some cases. You may ask them for help on <a href="http://www.biocomtech.com/health-assessment-tools" target="_blank">health assessments</a> with <a href="/content/health-snapshot">Health Snapshot</a>, viewing your health trends.</p>
<h3>Someone You Love Needs Help</h3>
<p><span class="subtitle1">If you&rsquo;re living in a home with someone who can not take care of themselves, you may not have the luxury of being able to help them with all their health needs.</span> And even more to the point, you should not be expending all of your energy on helping someone else. This will drain you and may even make you feel sick too. With a home health worker, you will be able to get assistance when you need it, helping you to enjoy your loved one instead of caring for them all the time. Plus, you will be able to do things on your own in order to help keep your <a href="/category/health-tags/healthy-lifestyle">health and life</a> more <a href="/category/health-tags/balance">balanced</a>.</p>
<p>When your <a href="/category/health-tags/health">health</a> or the health of a partner is less than ideal, home health services can be helpful. With their medical expertise, they can <a href="/content/what-health-monitoring-program-will-work-you">monitor your health</a> and make sure you are doing all you can to heal.</p>
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<p><span class="teaser">What is job stress? According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (a division of the CDC), job stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. Job stress can lead to poor health and even injury.</span></p>
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<p>Yes. <strong><a href="/content/stress-monitor">Heart Reviser's Stress Monitor</a>&nbsp;</strong>is a PC software tool which you can use to<strong> monitor your stress level </strong>in real-time while working. It uses a little device that attaches to your earlobe and transmits data to the PC. While you're working hands-free, you can always see your stress level in a system tray.&nbsp;When your stress level becomes closer to a danger zone, it&nbsp;notifies you about that and provides shortcut to launch <a href="/content/stress-sweeper"><strong>Stress Sweeper</strong></a>. Once the stress is relieved, you can continue working. The benefits from using that tool is that your body&nbsp;remains stress-free. Stress does not have a chance to harm your body since you're getting early notifications and preventing the stress. The tool is recommended for people with issues of sleep disorders, high risk of heart disease, hypertension or high blood pressure. and it is optimized for use by customer service and technical support personnel, brokers and sales persons.</p>
<p><strong><a href="/content/stress-monitor">Stress Monitor</a>&nbsp;is a proactive measure you can take to help <a href="/content/stress-sweeper">relieve stress</a> and improve your health.</strong></p>
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<p><span class="teaser">What is the acid/alkaline balance? Why is it so important to optimize it? Can it cause the disease? How else it affects our lifes? What do we need to optimize acid/alkaline balance and to reflect it in our diet?</span></p>
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<p>Have you ever wondered if many of the diseases raging through our society have a common cause? Many doctors, herbalists and nutritionists believe that the explanation may come down to three words: acid/alkaline imbalance.</p>
<h3>Keeping healthy balance</h3>
<p>Most people who suffer from unbalanced pH are acidic. This condition forces the body to borrow minerals &ndash; including calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium &ndash; from vital organs and bones to buffer (neutralize) the acid and safely remove it from the body. Because of this strain, the body can suffer severe and prolonged damage due to high acidity &ndash; a condition that may go undetected for years.</p>
<p>Over-acidity is very common today. It's a dangerous condition that weakens all body systems. It gives rise to an internal environment conducive to disease, as opposed to a pH-balanced environment which allows normal body function necessary for the body to resist disease. A healthy body maintains adequate alkaline reserves to meet emergency demands. When excess acids must be neutralized, our alkaline reserves are depleted leaving the body in a weakened condition. <strong>An acid/alkaline balanced <a href="/category/health-tags/weight-management/diet">diet</a>, according to many experts, is a vital key to health maintenance.</strong></p>
<p>We all want to live healthier, more vibrant lives. But, because our busy lives demand so much of us we tend to skip exercise and make poor dietary choices and our health suffers as a result. As our pH becomes more and more unbalanced, we tend to crave more acid-forming foods. It's a vicious cycle that saps energy, depletes minerals and nutrients, and causes a multitude of potentially life-threatening conditions and diseases. Research has shown acidic pH levels to be chief causes of obesity, migraine headaches, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and even cancer.</p>
<h3>Health Problems:&nbsp;Signs and symptoms of acidity</h3>
<p>Sunken eyes, bad breath, water retention, and foul-smelling stools are some of the more prominent signs and symptoms that your body is too acidic. Some other warning signs are rheumatoid arthritis, alternating constipation and diarrhea, and excessively low blood pressure.</p>
<h3>What can we do to optimize acid/alkaline balance?</h3>
<p>You should strive for about 80 percent of your food intake to be alkaline-forming and 20 percent to be acid-forming.<strong> </strong>Because all meats have a pH of less than 7 they are by their very nature acid-forming and consumption of these products should be minimized. Other foods such as pastas, breads, all dairy products, red sauces (such as those used in pasta dishes), chocolate and refined sugars also fall into the category of acid-forming.</p>
<p>Most of the body's fluids, such as the blood, saliva, bile, and even urine, function best when they are alkaline. When the alkalinity level falls, the efficiency of the affected organs is compromised. When your body enters a state of acidity the lungs, kidneys, intestines, liver, and skin must work harder.</p>
<h3>Alkaline-forming foods improving health</h3>
<p>It is important to introduce alkaline-forming foods into the diet. Many fresh and raw vegetables, salad greens, seeds and nuts can fill out your menu of alkaline-forming foods and are a tasty path to healthier living. If you can, choose organic fruits and vegetables.</p>
<p>Improving your diet, avoiding alcoholic beverages, not smoking, and getting enough rest are good ways to help bring your body into the proper balance of acid and alkalinity. None of these measures will result in a perfect pH balance overnight. However, taking action now in just a few of these areas will have a dramatically positive impact on your health and your overall sense of well-being. You'll look better, you'll feel better, and you'll be better positioned to live a longer, healthier life regardless of the cards that Mother Nature dealt you.</p>
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